56 FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



SAN GABRIEL TANK STATION 



At the time construction Work was being carried on at the Santa 

 Ana Station, we had our crews busy at Coldbrook Camp on the San 

 Gabriel River, twenty-five miles northeast of Los Angeles, where ten 

 tanks and a number of troughs were installed. Both the San Gabriel 

 River and Santa Ana stations are situated on National Forest Reserve 

 lands. These stations are built of temporary material with cabins for 

 help, and will relieve the situation in southern California until funds 

 are available to establish permanent hatcheries. Then the tanks and 

 small modern hatcheries can be built to furnish trout for the streams 

 of southern California. 



FORT SEWARD HATCHERY 



The usual successful operation of this station has been carried on 

 during the last two years. The station has been generally repaired 

 and many improvements made. A bridge was built across Fort Seward 

 Creek below the hatchery and a small truck purchased so that the sup- 

 plies for the hatchery, as well as the provisions, etc., for the superin- 

 tendent and a crew could be hauled with a small truck. Several years 

 ago the bridge on the road from Alderpoint to the hatchery and the 

 bridge on the road between the hatchery and the railroad were carried 

 away by high water. A cable and tram was installed with a gas engine 

 for power to convey the fish cans, egg cases and supplies to the hatchery. 

 This was installed as there was not sufficient funds available at the 

 time for the construction of the bridge, purchasing of a truck, and 

 repairs to the road. The tram cable system was a slow and tedious 

 method of operating. It took a great deal of patience and hard work 

 to take even a small shipment of fish from the hatchery to the railroad. 

 The cans, after being filled, were placed on the skip and lowered down 

 the hill to a point where they were transferred to a car and conveyed 

 by rail a few hundred feet, then placed on an old four-wheel truck to 

 the railroad another couple of hundred feet where they were placed on 

 the train and sent to their destination. 



"We mention these things to demonstrate the many difficult and ardu- 

 ous tasks hatchery men have to endure to make a success of their work. 

 They seldom complain, but conscientiously carry out the work neces- 

 sary to make a success of fish culture. The Fort Seward Hatchery is 

 in an isolated place, but is situated on the only stream along the line 

 of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad suitable for hatchery purposes. 

 There are a number of larger streams, but the condition of the water 

 is not good for hatchery use. The fish in this hatchery always make a 

 rapid growth, and are in excellent condition when planted. During 

 the latter part of the season, the water gets low in the two streams that 

 furnish the hatchery so that the majority of the fish have to be planted 

 before the latter part of the summer, but as conditions for the develop- 

 ment of the fish are so good, the fingerling trout are large enough for 

 planting and give good results wherever planted. 



During the biennial period, not including the eggs and fish handled 

 during the spring of 1928, there were hatched and distributed 3,253,600 

 trout from this station. 



